A Virginia high school football team is taking it upon itself to help rebuild a squad more than 400 miles away.
Bishop Sullivan Catholic (Virginia Beach) has taken Herbert Hoover (Clendenin, W. Va.) High under its wing after a player visited flood-ravaged West Virginia and saw the destruction for himself.
“It was sad, it looked like something out of a movie almost, all of their stuff was stripped out, it was sitting in a big pile,” senior Noah Knapp told WTKR-TV.
The school’s equipment and weight-lifting materials were destroyed, so Knapp and his teammates decided to do something about it. First, they collected several hundreds of dollars for gift cards. Then they put together a GoFundMe page for donations.
“I couldn’t imagine what it would be like without facilities and stuff like that, stuff we take for granted,” Jake Low, a sophomore football player, told the station. “So as a team, we started brainstorming.”
The school and community are still planning to do more.
“They’re going to overcome it,” says Knapp. “And we’re going to help them.”